Anti Dementors, Assemble!

[Mascotte]

I think I finished the last thread by accident...

I read recently that the Spanish Flu (which we all know is the same as coronavirus!) mutated between its first and second peak and the second peak was much more lethal to younger people. So it was actually better to get it the first time around.

I'm not a medical professional by any means, but the facts seemed a bit different to the narrative the dementors have about avoiding it now to somehow stop a second peak later.

I wonder if these people tend to be posh types who are like it anyway, we get some of those 'out of my way' types maybe need a glare stop and stare approach!

Zoidberg no please go ahead with the thing that might make us smile It's generally a positive thread, just it sometimes feels like the only safe place to vent as well.

Sorry you've been feeling low too And your post didn't sound insensitive at all.

Willit this one seems more stable and less likely to mutate like the Spanish flu in case that helps any. I worried about that also

We need a good response to this shouting etc

A tut and "Don't be ridiculous" works for me. I'm not staying around for a debate afterwards either. At walking speed there isn't time for an exchange of views or virus.

@Mustbetimeforachange I was wondering this too. The stats look like a huge amount of negatives for symptoms. If that makes sense.

My teen 14 is point blank refusing to get up. Asks me why he should. I don't have a good answer for him, they don't get much school work- or certainly not that I see - at the start there were online house parties with his pals to work through things - now he does the bare minimum to get through before all day gaming. Hard to engage him in anything else, particularly as his pals chat and interact with him on the game. Meanwhile he's getting podgy because his only exercising is when we force him to walk the dog.

Before this he'd started meeting with pals to go to the cinema , gym and play football together. Will they ever be allowed to play football again even though their risk of catching it seriously is minimal and we think we've had it already.

We're in Scotland so now i've given up hope of him getting back before August because care home stats give the Scottish government an excuse to be different from England.

It's great that on top of everything else, I get to feel like a rubbish parent. How much of our children's lives are we expected to give up and for how long ?

@TrustTheGeneGenie otoh maybe these measures worked well for us here because the country is sparsely populated as it is. I can tell you that there is very little social distancing in shops and so on - it works because it's rarely that packed. There is NO social distancing on walks, people will walk together and not make space.

for the UK app it is triggered when people report symptoms not have a positive test. Hence the possibility of it going off all the time with people not having to test positive

I have the app. They’re trialling it down here. I did wonder if it would be going off all the time, but it hasn’t gone off for me at all (and no one I know either) - I’ve been to B&Q, Asda, the Co-Op, our yard, out walking the dog, etc. It only picks up if you’ve been in close contact with someone for more than 15 minutes

Anyone with symptoms can get a test now as well

I've actually deactivated my twitter account now. I used it for a niche interest (gender critical feminism) and general laffs but my life is made worse, not better, by David Baddiel pretending he doesn't know if he's allowed to go skiing or not.

@inwpild rather my kids get i@

@@rookiemere I feel you my son is 13 he hates this work from home stuff I've given up not gonna lie

Not sure what happened with last post phone went funny but yes I would rather my kids get it in summer then winter. It's just logic but everyone is scared to death now.

Thanks maria I'm just struggling a bit with it at the minute, I've always been able to jolly him up by 11 before so this is new.

Oh god, the “I don’t understand” stuff is doing my head in

BBC last night we’re a nightmare for it.

I don’t consider myself particularly intelligent, but it was perfectly clear to me.

Had a zoom meeting with my school this morning. All very positive and has cheered me up.
We have surveyed parents of R 1 and 6 and so far 83% have said they want their kids back on 1st June.

There has been a lot of Ice cream van dementoring on my Facebook today

See, I think the guidance is clear enough but "STAY ALERT" is not. I think they needed to think beyond the "stay [something]" line. I know there are people out there being wilfully "confused" but it doesn't actually make a huge amount of sense as an instruction concerning a virus. 🤷🏼‍♀️

zoid your post was none of those things, please come and sit with us on our comfy sofa - it is massive, we all adhere to the 2m rule and someone said something about mini twisters.

@Zoidbergonthehalfshell hello.. 😊 It sounds as though we could all do with cheering up today.

And all the whataboutery

Everyone has slightly different circumstances. The government can’t cover every single one

Use your common sense for fucks sake!

Everyone has slightly different circumstances. The government can’t cover every single one

Of course they can't. But the press and media are very guilty of this too. Common sense is surprisingly uncommon.

Fortunately I've not been Dementored in the comunity while running. My bugbear is the walkers who need to BE AWARE and just acknowledge when someone else has inconvenienced themself for them. Last week I had a pair of dog walkers in an arable field so I stopped running and waited with a sufficient berth in a spot where the crop wasn't going. On they plodded. Slowly. Was there any acknowledgement that I'd inconvenienced myself for them? Nothing. I get really irritated by that. Especially when you then get online comments about how selfish and terrible runners are.

I'm hoping that from tomorrow it will be safe to be able to freely mention distance/ time on running groups again

Dementors are in every group. You do just get waves of particular themes. The running has calmed down thank goodness.

I loved today's Dementor forecast

The wilful confusion is getting on my tits.

Boris: stay at home until things change
People: Wah, treat us like adults

Boris: fine, we are relaxing the rules a bit. This means more grey areas and less strict right t/wrong answers but we expect people to use some common sense to determine what's reasonable. When in doubt don't go out. (actually that's a bloody good slogan, you can have that one on me Boris)
People : Wah, it's soooo confusing. Please spell out in words of one syllable what I need to do.

The general public are fucking awful. However in trying times I defer to Terry Pratchett:

People on the side of The People always ended up disappointed, in any case. They found that The People tended not to be grateful or appreciative or forward-thinking or obedient. The People tended to be small-minded and conservative and not very clever and were even distrustful of cleverness. And so the children of the revolution were faced with the age-old problem: it wasn't that you had the wrong kind of government, which was obvious, but that you had the wrong kind of people.

Springer so what’s your view on travel to a green space for exercise, via public transport- can the police fine me or not?

I’m sorry if I’m thick, but confusion =£100 fine so I can’t risk it.

Off to check the lawyer tweets to see if they can help.....

The whataboutery after Sunday’s BoJo speech drove me nuts. It’s was a ten minute address, at least half of which was sub-Churchillian blether and desk banging, so no Dave in Watford or Carole in Hull, your very specific situations funnily enough weren’t explained throughly.

Nothing is inappropriate after the accidental chicken in a crash helmet